Medium acute hospitals in Regional and Major city areas treating between 5,000 and 10,000acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum

C2

Medium acute hospitals in Regional and Major city areas treating between 2,000 and 5,000 acute casemix adjusted separations per annum, and acute hospitals treating <2,000 casemix-adjusted separations per annum but with >2,000 separations per annum

Small acute hospitals

D1

Small Regional acute hospitals (mainly small country town hospitals), acute hospitals treating <2,000 separations per annum, and with less than 40% nonacute and outlier patient days of total patient days

Small acute hospitals

D3

Small remote hospitals (<5,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations but not 'Multipurpose services' and not 'Small non-acute'. Most are <2,000 separations

Small sub-acute and non-acute hospitals

D2

E2

G

Small non-acute hospitals, treating <2,000 separations per annum, and with more than 40% non-acute and outlier patient days of total patient days (D2) plus Multipurpose service (E2) – Small sub-acute and non-acute hospitals (G)

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2011. Australian hospital statistics 2009–10.